What matters is quite relative, but in the view of nerds I would think computer games would matter to the Slashdot crowd. A nd as one of the greatest games on all time, NetHack surely deserves some coverage.
Diablo is a point and click game with very little strategy, while Baldur's Gate is a very good story with RPG chars and some strategy. Not too much, you can always reload.
I have played them all, though I found Diablo II quite long and tedious. There is just simply little thinking involved.
But too call nethack simplistic is to make yourself seem so.
Man, I might read a book, if it had good multimedia quality. What I would like is pretty pictures and not words. Skip this letter based system. Then I'll see if I'm interested. But the words are simply not immersive enough for me yet.:-( If these "demands" of mine need Nethack to be some commercial product, so be it. I haven't got a problem with that. If Nethack is as good as I've heard, it could turn out to be a killer game...my child, it is a killer game, you just don't realize it yet.
If I remember correctly. You are assuming they are using switches not hubs, because most hubs(at least older ones) have no knowledge of MAC addresses. Of course, they are probably using switches so it's a mute point.
OK, I am dumber than I thought, as I could just print off the new paper and ADD it too the safe deposit box. I will blame my previous post on lack of coffee, inate intelligence, I have two daughters, etc.
I know, but it would be 50 pages every month(and growing), and a trip to the bank, every month. I just save multiple copies in different places(i.e. I zip the files and send it to my yahoo mail account). But my main point was, is that some personal data is priceless, and not to be trivialized. Thanks for replying.
I have seen a alot of people on here ranting about how no data is that important.
I have two kids (3 and 1), and about once a month I write a letter to them. This is stored on my computer. There are about 50 letters currently have been written and when each child turns 18, maybe 21 and will give the letters to them. I have them stored on my computer, and if I ever lost them I would be crushed. Granted, I try to keep 4 back-ups at all times, but it easy to forget to send a copy to work, yahoo, and disk. Plus, my data might be 100k total, it would be even more trouble if it was 100M. I feel very bad when anyone loses data that's important to them, and IMHO it can be a HUGE deal. Not something to be laughed off.
You seem to be one of those spoiled rich kids, who just happens to be "enlighted" and will show us out of the darkness. You also must not have spent too much time with poor people, or you wouldn't spewing as you do. Most poor people in America are poor for a few reasons: 1. Bad decisions(pregnant, flunked school, etc) 2. Lazy(yes i will say it) 3. Just got off the boat(and if they have a solid family it will usually be just the first generation that is poor) 4. Incompetent(physical, pysch, etc) 5. Choice(my sister has little money, but that is because she choose a field in which she makes just 20K; or they simply don't mind being poor, it is not where their satisfaction comes)
My feeling is a very small % in the US(not true in other countries), are poor because they are brought down by the rich man.
My observations are taken from living and growing up in various regions of appalachia.
Of course being poor also needs to be defined more.
Wrong, stop your trolling. Ever heard of all the problems in Africa, Kashmir, China, Phillipines. No of those issues have any thing to do with oil. The big problem with US in middle-east is Israel. We back Israel they hate Israel they hate us. Whether we should back Israel or not is another story, but we do and that is the reason.
Good grief, you want 2500KM^2 of land to produice energy. The greens you fry you. You blood sucking Republician! They won't give up 1 KM^2 in the artic.
I am curious why they choose the TCP/IP stack. My guess would be that TCP/IP would be where Linux and BSD's would be the strongest. I am also a little confused because I thought Win2000 used BSD's TCP/IP stack. I am sure those guys are alot smarter than I, but I am a little confused on testing.
I just bought 50 computers like the above, for about $75(for all of them). And you right they would fine win98 machines or older x-boxs. And freebsd/linux servers. Now I just have to figure how wants to buy a couple, before my wife kills me.:-)
> I think it's important to ask how much Kitchen Waste is needed to operate one of these things.
Good question.
>So maybe technology like this will work well in less advanced kitchens, but those are the kitchens where it is least likely to be implemented.
I wouldn't agree. I assume that you assume that the poorer eat more food from scratch. And while I believe that was true at one time, I don't believe it is true anymore.
More and more people are coming back to well-prepared food. And realizing that it isn't that much work. For instance I ate a banana yesterday and my wife's homemade broccoli soup. Banana peel and parts of the broccoli are not eaten. Instant energy! Of course it matters what the answer to your first question was.
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I would disagree. There is a huge difference between open and free.
In open I license my software to another company, it saves them time(and hence money) and they pay me money.
If my company ever goes under or relations get bad then they still have the source to modify if they wish.
Free is BSD I far as I can tell.
GPL is free to use but not make money off.
Though I do agree with your conclusion.
Ok.
News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
What matters is quite relative, but in the view of nerds I would think computer games would matter to the Slashdot crowd. A
nd as one of the greatest games on all time, NetHack surely deserves some coverage.
NetHack is a strategy game, with an RPG fascade.
Diablo is a point and click game with very little strategy, while Baldur's Gate is a very good story with RPG chars and some strategy. Not too much, you can always reload.
I have played them all, though I found Diablo II quite long and tedious. There is just simply little thinking involved.
But too call nethack simplistic is to make yourself seem so.
Or put another another way.
:-( ..my child, it is a killer game, you just don't realize it yet.
Man, I might read a book, if it had good multimedia quality.
What I would like is pretty pictures and not words.
Skip this letter based system.
Then I'll see if I'm interested.
But the words are simply not immersive enough for me yet.
If these "demands" of mine need Nethack to be some commercial product, so be it. I haven't got a problem with that. If Nethack is as good as I've heard, it could turn out to be a killer game.
I am confused you would not have posted about NetHack or PocketPC's?
Because he wants to see someone who asendended in NetHack, A Master.
Since no one is a Master and no one has asendended, it was modded as funny.
Yes, I know it has happened, but still work with me.
Ok, ok, I don't get it.
I fail to see why Gilette wanting to track their razors, is taking away my rights.
Or do the tags stay with the razor for the life of the product?
Someone(from both angles) help me out, there seems to be confusion.
If I remember correctly.
You are assuming they are using switches not hubs, because most hubs(at least older ones) have no knowledge of MAC addresses.
Of course, they are probably using switches so it's a mute point.
And I may be wrong...
ACK!
OK, I am dumber than I thought, as I could just print off the new paper and ADD it too the safe deposit box. I will blame my previous post on lack of coffee, inate intelligence, I have two daughters, etc.
I know, but it would be 50 pages every month(and growing), and a trip to the bank, every month. I just save multiple copies in different places(i.e. I zip the files and send it to my yahoo mail account).
But my main point was, is that some personal data is priceless, and not to be trivialized.
Thanks for replying.
I have seen a alot of people on here ranting about how no data is that important.
I have two kids (3 and 1), and about once a month I write a letter to them. This is stored on my computer. There are about 50 letters currently have been written and when each child turns 18, maybe 21 and will give the letters to them.
I have them stored on my computer, and if I ever lost them I would be crushed.
Granted, I try to keep 4 back-ups at all times, but it easy to forget to send a copy to work, yahoo, and disk. Plus, my data might be 100k total, it would be even more trouble if it was 100M.
I feel very bad when anyone loses data that's important to them, and IMHO it can be a HUGE deal. Not something to be laughed off.
Alright you may be a home-schooling freakzoid, but your comment is funny.
You seem to be one of those spoiled rich kids, who just happens to be "enlighted" and will show us out of the darkness.
You also must not have spent too much time with poor people, or you wouldn't spewing as you do.
Most poor people in America are poor for a few reasons:
1. Bad decisions(pregnant, flunked school, etc)
2. Lazy(yes i will say it)
3. Just got off the boat(and if they have a solid family it will usually be just the first generation that is poor)
4. Incompetent(physical, pysch, etc)
5. Choice(my sister has little money, but that is because she choose a field in which she makes just 20K; or they simply don't mind being poor, it is not where their satisfaction comes)
My feeling is a very small % in the US(not true in other countries), are poor because they are brought down by the rich man.
My observations are taken from living and growing up in various regions of appalachia.
Of course being poor also needs to be defined more.
Wrong, stop your trolling.
Ever heard of all the problems in Africa, Kashmir, China, Phillipines. No of those issues have any thing to do with oil.
The big problem with US in middle-east is Israel. We back Israel they hate Israel they hate us.
Whether we should back Israel or not is another story, but we do and that is the reason.
Points for well said reply!
Good grief, you want 2500KM^2 of land to produice energy. The greens you fry you. You blood sucking Republician! They won't give up 1 KM^2 in the artic.
And they say unix in not intuitive. Ha!
:%s/^M//g
also
in vi also works.
The ^M is created by holding down the ctrl-V and then hitting the M key.
See even someone as dull as I can learn this stuff.
Ah yes, I forgot about installing my Beowulf cluster with PXE booting. What was I thinking! I'll get right on that. ;-)
Ummm, so could I doesn't make me a bank.
They are not FDIC insured, therefore if you have a million bucks in PayPal and it goes under, so does your money, government won't help.
Ah yes, but putting FreeBSD on a system with no CD-ROM is a piece of cake. Assuming it can reconize the NIC, of course. :)
Sorry for the jab, but installing Linux without CD-Rom is a hassle.
PayPal is not a bank. PayPal is not a bank!
Therefore, it is NOT like a policeman going to your bank & asking for your complete financial details.
If you want the privacy then work through a bank and don't use PayPal.
PayPal is not a bank!
I am curious why they choose the TCP/IP stack. My guess would be that TCP/IP would be where Linux and BSD's would be the strongest. I am also a little confused because I thought Win2000 used BSD's TCP/IP stack.
I am sure those guys are alot smarter than I, but I am a little confused on testing.
Anyone?
I just bought 50 computers like the above, for about $75(for all of them). And you right they would fine win98 machines or older x-boxs. And freebsd/linux servers. Now I just have to figure how wants to buy a couple, before my wife kills me. :-)
> I think it's important to ask how much Kitchen Waste is needed to operate one of these things.
Good question.
>So maybe technology like this will work well in less advanced kitchens, but those are the kitchens where it is least likely to be implemented.
I wouldn't agree. I assume that you assume that the poorer eat more food from scratch. And while I believe that was true at one time, I don't believe it is true anymore.
More and more people are coming back to well-prepared food. And realizing that it isn't that much work. For instance I ate a banana yesterday and my wife's homemade broccoli soup. Banana peel and parts of the broccoli are not eaten. Instant energy! Of course it matters what the answer to your first question was.
How many actually get their car painted? My guess is very few.